Entheogenic Books

by Martin W. Ball, Ph.D.

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5-MeO-DMT Integration: Embodying Nonduality is Not What You Think - Education and Empowerment for Working with The God Molecule (2024)

Now available in Paperback and ebook (audiobook is forthcoming, spring 2024)

Back when I dubbed 5-MeO-DMT "The God Molecule" in 2008, "integration" of psychedelics wasn't a topic of discussion or concern. Now, in 2024, it's a hot topic, but what, precisely, does it mean when taken in the context of the world's most powerful entheogen?

That's precisely what this book sets out to answer. Based on my own personal process, my work as a nondual energetic practitioner, and my professional work as a nondual entheogenic integration coach, this book provides an incomparable take on what it means to integrate 5-MeO-DMT as examined through the lens of nondual energetic embodiment and processing.

In this book I explain what therapists, clients, facilitators, and integration coaches need to understand about the unique actions and potentials of 5-MeO-DMT. Practical, grounded, empirical, and thoroughly rational, this book is a must-read by anyone interested in the topic of integration of 5-MeO-DMT, The God Molecule.

Facilitating 5-MeO-DMT: An Anthology of Approaches to Serving The God Molecule (2022)

Now available, Spring 2022, in paperback, ebook, and audiobook:

The world's most profound entheogen, 5-MeO-DMT, "The God Molecule," is rapidly spreading around the globe, due to its unique ability to provide reliable access to nondual states of consciousness and embodied experience. Attracting the attention of philosophers, therapists, researchers, celebrities, and spiritual seekers the world over, this radical entheogen is quickly changing the landscape of humanity's ability to experience itself as the divine without the need for religion or even spirituality.

In this one-of-a-kind collection of essays, nondual educator and former 5-MeO-DMT facilitator, Martin W. Ball, Ph.D., has invited facilitators from around the world to present their perspectives on how the experience of 5-MeO-DMT is facilitated and shared by presenting their own unique practices in their own voices.

A Sleep Story: an Unintentional Exploration of the Altered States of Being Awake (2021)

A Sleep Story is now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook. This book is a medical autobiography exploring my life-long difficulties with sleep and my current chronic sleep disorder. It is something of a follow-up to my 2014 memoir, Being Infinite, though it has a very different focus and intent. This is a very personal account of struggle, suffering, and learning to live with it, along with many observations about culture, politics, society, healthcare, and psychedelics and some of the darker aspects of psychedelic culture.

The Entheological Paradigm: Essays on the DMT and 5-MeO-DMT Experience and the Meaning of it All - 2021 Edition

New for 2021 is a completely re-vamped and greatly-expanded version of my 2011 book, The Entheological Paradigm. This new edition is significantly different from the original release. Some of the original contents have been removed, and many new materials have been included. New to this edition:

My critical essays on the topic of 2012 and magical, fantasy thinking

My keynote address to the Nonduality Global Summit 2020

My address to the World Bufo Alvarius Congress, 2020

No-longer-in-print selections from my 2008 book, The Entheogenic Evolution

Two essays on MDMA and MDA

My essay on Three Models of Psychedelic Healing

An all-new introduction

A lengthy interview from "The Naked Guru Experience"

And more!

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Entheogenic Liberation: Unraveling the Enigma of Nonduality with 5-MeO-DMT Energetic Therapy (2017)

From the author of the groundbreaking book, Being Human, comes a radical new guide to personal liberation and transformation. Written by one of the world’s leading authorities on nonduality and psychedelic experience, Martin W. Ball, Ph.D., Entheogenic Liberation is the definitive work on 5-MeO-DMT and its applicability to genuine enlightenment and freedom from the illusory prison of the ego. With wisdom and guidance culled from years of direct therapeutic work, this book lays out precise and detailed instructions and methodologies for working with the world’s most powerful entheogenic medicine for the purpose of achieving liberation into the fundamental unitary state of being. Presented as a form of therapy, this work is free from metaphysics and speculation, articulating practical approaches for deep entheogenic work that can achieve radical and meaningful results. The ideas and techniques explored here could revolutionize the way people think of psychedelics, nonduality, human life, and reality in general. Provocative, challenging, and deeply insightful, Entheogenic Liberation is a must-read for anyone serious about liberation and the future o humanity - a future that is grounded in truth, or lost in illusion and the perpetual confusions of the human ego.

Beyond the artificial construct of the individual self lies an infinite unitary state of love, awareness, and authentic being. By working to energetically unwind the unconscious artifice of the ego, the possibility of true freedom calls.

Only you can liberate yourself. Are you ready?

Being Infinite - An Entheogenic Odyssey into the Limitless Eternal: A Memoir from Ayahuasca to Zen (2014)

This memoir is an intimate look into my personal process of awakening and nondual transformation through my explorations of spirituality and entheogenic states of being. It follows my journey from childhood to the culmination of my personal process in 2009 via extensive work with 5-MeO-DMT and ayahuasca. This is sure to be a provocative and challenging addition to the literature on etheogenic practices and psychedelic memoirs. For anyone who wants to know what I went through to learn the things I have, and how I came to my radically nondual view, this is what to read.

The Entheological Paradigm: Essays on the DMT and 5-MeO-DMT Experience and the Meaning of it All (2011)

This book is a collection of independently written essays about the Entheological Paradigm, which I first articulated in Being Human, including movie reviews and analysis of the film Avatar and The Spirit Molecule, and my controversial article on Terence McKenna. This book is an invaluable addition to the ongoing discovery of the meaning of it all . . .
Essays include:

"The Entheological Paradigm: An Overview"
"The Process: An Experiential Discourse on Non-Duality"
"Terence on DMT: McKenna's Reflections in the Tryptamine Mirror of the Self"
"Ego, Energy, and Entheogens: The Reality of Human Liberation from Illusion"
"Digesting The Spirit Molecule: Is DMT Inter-Dimensional Rocket Fuel or a Reflection of the Self?"
"The Avatar Dreamhunt: Why Psychedelics Make Avatar More Sophisticated"
"Visionary Art"

Being Human: An Entheological Guide to God, Evolution, and the Fractal Energetic Nature of Reality (2009)

After a year of intensive personal work exploring my energy and consciousness with entheogenic medicines such as Ayahuasca and 5-MeO-DMT, I underwent a profound transformation of my being in the Spring of 2009. Being Human is the product of this personal transformation and radical self-liberation: A completely true account of the fundamental nature of reality and how YOU can liberate yourself from the confines of your illusion-bound ego.

Simple, concise, and radical, Being Human outlines the Entheological Paradigm, a Grand Unified Theory of reality that accounts for not only all of the physical world, but personal consciousness, life, and God as well. This guide explains the nature of God as a Fractal Energy Being and how this One Being works to create all of physical reality and is also embodied in all living beings through the process of evolution.

To be Human is to be God in a body. This guide not only explains how this is accomplished through energetic evolution, but also explains how individuals can use entheogenic medicines to learn how to own their personal energy and take responsibility for themselves as unique manifestations and embodiments of God.

Free of fluff, mystification, metaphysics, and all religious dogma and illusion, Being Human is the simple, easy-to-follow guide to a fulfilling life in reality that humanity has been waiting for. This is the book that can change the world, and it all begins with YOU!

Welcome, at long last, to Reality!

Entheologues: Conversations with Leading Psychedelic Thinkers, Explorers and Researcher (2008)

Entheologues presents a fascinating collection of interviews with top figures in the entheogenic field. James Oroc talks about God, 5-MeO-DMT, zero-point energy and the Akashic Field. Rick Strassman discusses his new book and shares the surprising results of his DMT study, along with his hopes for an entheogenic research center. Jan Irvin and John Rush discuss the roles of psychedelic mushrooms and other visionary sacraments in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. In the final interview, Daniel Siebert gives a detailed history of Salvia divinorum. Completing the book, Martin W. Ball makes a strong case for the human right to entheogen use as religious sacraments. Was Jesus a psychedelic mushroom? Do DMT experiences send people into alternate realities? What is the legal status of entheogens for spiritual use? Why are there so many mushroom images in Christian art? Can 5-MeO-DMT bring about realization of God? These questions and more are answered in Entheologues.

Sage Spirit: Salvia Divinorum and the Entheogenic Experience (2007)

Salvia divinorum is a unique and profoundly powerful visionary herb from the Mazatec region of Mexico. Now widely available in the western world via the internet, but still little understood, this legal entheogen is becoming ever more popular among those who follow the shamanic path of plant based spirituality. In this work, artist, musician, writer and shamanic explorer, Martin Ball, navigates his way through the strange world of sage space, from Burning Man to overtone singing and cosmic serpents, bringing back guidance and advice for the use of Salvia divinorum as a true entheogen and ritual sacrament. Sage Spirit is bound to be a valuable resource for all those interested in exploring salvia responsibly as a spiritual catalyst and consciousness-expanding agent of personal transformation. Filled with personal accounts, practical advice and philosophical reflections, this book is a must for anyone wanting to learn more about this amazing visionary plant.

Mushroom Wisdom: How Shamans Cultivate Spiritual Consciousness (2006)

Mushroom Wisdom explores the universal aspects of the psilocybin mushroom experience as it relates to spirituality. Author Martin Ball explains how mushroom use can lead the spiritual seeker to profound states of self-awareness and radical understanding of the nature of the self, reality, and the sacred. Topics include looking into the spiritual mirror to uncover an authentic sense of self, developing “witness” consciousness to overcome self-limiting concepts and judgments, and removing obstacles of ego and self-induced suffering to trigger the rich experience of “spirit flow.” The book also addresses the creation and use of ritual, sacred objects, and the importance of sound and silence. Ball distinguishes between using mushrooms in spiritual work as opposed to simply having a pleasant psychedelic experience. Not a guide to how to have “fun” with psilocybin mushrooms, Mushroom Wisdom is a serious investigation into the deep spiritual nature of the mushroom experience, drawing on both a wide array of scientific disciplines and ancient shamanic practice.

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